You probably got the worst case scenario: working on somebody's else code and on a project converted to VFP by the convertion wizard...

The convertion wizard is more like a toy than a real utility. I never got a working application after passing a project to it, I allways had a lot of tweaking to do and the result was plain ugly and a nightmare to maintain because of the code generated by the wizard. The code was still based on FP 2.x on a OOP language, not a very nice mix.

I hope that Sergey suggestion will work for you. Otherwise, you may seriously consider Hilmar's advice and rewrite the whole thing from scratch... The time you will spend on getting the new form to work without breaking anything else may exceed the time needed to rewrite the entire application, depending on the size of the project.

Good luck :)

>I have just started maintenance work on a vfp6 app, where the majority of the forms in the app were converted from fpw2.6, using the 'converter tool??? (I vaguely remember this from vfp5 or 3???)
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>All of the converted forms have - a formset,form, pageframe, and single page. Again I vaguely remember that some sort of conversion tool creates these objects.
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>All of the converted forms have a window type of 'read'. I assume the converter makes it this way. In the drop down for windows types the choices are modeless, modal, read modal and read.
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>There is a new(er) form that someone created, prior to my being here, that has a formset, and form, but not the pageframe/single page. It appears to have been created directly in vfp - and the window type is modal. This form (as well as any other new vfp forms I create) do not have read modal or read as a window type choice.
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>Is read modal and read something that the converter creates just for converted forms? Or is there some other setting that needs to be true, or something that I have to do, to make the new(er) form have a window type of read.
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>All the forms are called from a 'main menu form' with command buttons. When you click a command button/menu choice, the read forms pop up 'IN PLACE OF' the main menu form. However, when you click menu choice for the new(er) form, it pops up on top of and separate from the main menu form.
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>The client likes the way that the read forms replace the main menu form. They want me to make the new(er) form do the same. How can I get a new vfp form to be a read form? Is that what makes it behave such that it replaces the instead of pops up over the main menu form?